[Aquanet] Digital Cameras

[miriam]

PS the trick to taking "good" photographs of paintings is the white balance control.
I tape a piece of white paper next to my art. My camera is on a tripod ( good investment)
In the free Microsoft picture manager tool that is on my computer I select "enhance color"
An icon appears that I place over the white paper and click. It tells the program that it should be white so it takes out all the pink in the photo. Then I crop everything out in picture manager and hit "enhance photo" that should bring everything very close to actual painting. I have Adobe photoshop but the free program is better.



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----- Original Message ----
From: miriam <miriams0 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 5:20:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Aquanet] Digital Cameras


 I loved my compact 6mp Kodak for everything but I felt ridiculous
bringing it to my photo shoots ( reference photos for portraits)
and recently upgraded to 10mp Nikon40dx

I originally thought I was going to get a Canon because they are "the best"
but the Nikon was so much more user friendly.

But I must say that at the end of the day I do not see a noticeable difference
in the pictures between the kodak and the nikon. The Nikon has better zoom
control. The kodak has better macros. btw my kodak was only $250 ( now you can get 8mp for that) and my Nikon set me back $1000

soooo.....for you it sounds like you just need the highest megapixel non-slr
that they have now you will be
 fine.



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----- Original Message ----
From: Roy Boston <roy at boston.net.nz>
To: Pam Pate <ppate at multipro.com>
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Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 4:58:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Aquanet] Cannon Power Shot G9

Pam Pate wrote:
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> I have been doing a little comparison browsing----the internet is such 
> a great tool!!!  I like what I see with the Cannon Power Shot G9.  It 
> has 12.1 MP, 6x optical zoom, auto & manual focus and supports JPEG & 
> RAW files.  (Is RAW uncompressed or like TIFF?)  That is a new one for me.
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> Anyone familiar with this
 camera?  The price is perfect!!!
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> Thank you Annette & Nita for the input.
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> Pam
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> Hi Pam,
I have used the G9 and it is a very good camera for the sort of 
photography you envisage - another camera (out new last month) is the 
Panasonic Lumix FZ18.  I own one of these and it is very good too - 18x 
optical zoom, 8.3 Mp etc. - might be a little cheaper than the Canon.

Yours

Roy In New Zealand
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